For information about protest songs in general, see Protest song.

Contents

1 Animal rights and meat consumption 2 Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture 3 Environmentalism 4 Feminism 5 Globalization and corporate dominance 6 Governments and imperialism 7 Guns and violence 8 Homosexuals 9 Land Rights 10 Materialism 11 Music critics and the music industry 12 Nuclear weapons 13 Police or authority 14 Politicians or world leaders 15 Poverty 16 Prohibition and the War on Drugs 17 Racism, apartheid and civil rights 18 Religion 19 Slavery 20 Television 21 Terrorism 22 Unions and labor 23 War 24 Youth Rights 25 Protest songs concerning protest songs 26 Other protest songs 27 Some protest song artists 28 External links

Animal rights and meat consumption

• "Anarcho Pie" Oi Polloi (a vegetarian recipe set to music)
• "The Animals Song" Robb Johnson
• "Berkshire Cunt" Conflict
• "Boxing Day" Robb Johnson
• "Corporate Deathburger" MDC
• "Dapple Rose" Slade
• "Insensibilidad" Ska-P
• "Kémalo" Ska-P
• "Looking for Changes" Paul McCartney
• "Meat is Murder" Conflict, The Smiths
• "Nailing Descartes to the Wall" Propagandhi
• "Purina Hall of Fame" Propagandhi
• "Shock the Monkey" Peter Gabriel
• "Tame Yourself" Raw Youth
• "This is A.L.F." Conflict
• "Wild Life" Paul McCartney & Wings
• "Testure" Skinny Puppy

Drugs, drug abuse, and drug culture

• "Cocaine" Jackson Browne
• "Coma White" Marilyn Manson
• "Expecting to Fly" Neil Young
• "Hand of Doom" Black Sabbath
• "Hurt" - Nine Inch Nails or Johnny Cash
• "Kicks" Paul Revere & The Raiders
• "Master of Puppets" Metallica
• "The Message Part 2" Grandmaster Flash
• "The Needle and the Damage Done" Neil Young
• "The Pusher" Steppenwolf
• "Pusherman" Curtis Mayfield - as well as most of his Superfly album
• "Sam Stone" John Prine
• "Slow Motion" Third Eye Blind
• "Straight Edge" Minor Threat
• "Tired Eyes" Neil Young
• "Tonight's the Night" Neil Young
• "Womb of the Worm" Skyclad

Environmentalism

• "Animal Farm" The Kinks
• "Apeman" The Kinks
• "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell or Counting Crows
• "Blue Sky Mine" Midnight Oil
• "Carbon Monoxide" Cake
• "The Cradle Will Fall" Skyclad
• "Crazy Horses" The Osmonds
• "Cuyahoga" R.E.M.
• "Damn this Traffic Jam" James Taylor
• "The Disenchanted Forest" Skyclad
• "Emergency On Planet Earth" Jamiroquai
• "Eskimo Blue Day" Jefferson Airplane
• "Fall on Me" R.E.M.
• "If a Tree Falls" Bruce Cockburn
• "Kyoto Now" Bad Religion
• "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" Marvin Gaye
• "Only So Much Oil In The Ground" Tower of Power
• "Paradise" John Prine
• "Rape of the World" Tracy Chapman
• "Run Straight Down" Warren Zevon
• "Saltwater" Julian Lennon
• "Too Young To Die" Jamiroquai
• "When You Gonna Learn" Jamiroquai
• "Wild Life" Paul McCartney & Wings

Feminism

• "Better Man" Pearl Jam
• "Double Dare Ya" Bikini Kill
• "Freedom" Aretha Franklin
• "Fuck Machine" Propagandhi
• "I Am Woman" Helen Reddy
• "I Wanna Be an Engineer" Peggy Seeger
• "Jump Mama Jump" The Poison Girls
• "Ladies Night in Loserville" Propagandhi
• "One Girl Army" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Only Women Bleed" Alice Cooper
• "Sisters are doing it for themselves" Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin
• "Woman is the Nigger of the World" John Lennon
• "Women" Crass

Globalization and corporate dominance

• "21st Century Living" Matthew Good
• "Bullet in your head" Rage Against the Machine
• "Californication" Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Call it Democracy" Bruce Cockburn
• "Everything Counts" Depeche Mode
• "Giants" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Goodbye Desolate Railyard" A Silver Mt. Zion
• "The Great Brain Robbery" Skyclad
• "I'm Changing My Name to Chrysler" Tom Paxton
• "Liberation Frequency" Refused
• "Mind The GATT" Anti-Flag
• "Movement" S.T.U.N.
• "New Feudalism" No WTO Combo
• "Panic" The Smiths
• "Radio, Radio" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• "Solamente por Pensar" Ska-P
• "The State Lottery" Propagandhi
• "Throw Away Your Television" Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Vultures" Five Iron Frenzy
• "We love the Pirate Stations" reportedly The Rocking Berries although credited to 'The Roaring Sixties' to distance themselves from the campaign to save offshore radio around the UK.
• "Won't Get Fooled Again" The Who
• "WTO" Pennywise

Governments and imperialism

• "All Hawai'i Stand Together" Dennis Pavao
• "America Latina ¡¡Libre!! Ska-P
• "Black 47" Black 47
• "A Design For Life" Manic Street Preachers
• "Chile Your Waters Run Red Through Soweto" Bernice Johnson Reagon, cover version by Billy Bragg is also well known
• "España Va Bien" Ska-P
• "Fanatic Heart" Black 47
• "Flying Arrow" Mason Proffit
• "Gimme Some Truth" John Lennon
• "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" Paul McCartney
• "God Save the Queen" The Sex Pistols
• "Government Walls" James
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "Indian Reservation" Paul Revere and the Raiders
• "James Connolly" Black 47
• "La Sesera No VA" Ska-P
• "Monster" Steppenwolf
• "Revolution" The Beatles
• "Revolution" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Ringing of Revolution" Phil Ochs
• "Santo Domingo" Phil Ochs
• "Sargento Bolilla" Ska-P
• "The System Works For Them" Aus-Rotten
• "The Nature of the Threat" Emcee Lynx
• "Tío Sam" Ska-P
• "Volunteers" Jefferson Airplane
• "War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, May All Your Intervention Be Humanitarian" Propagandhi
• "What About Me?" Quicksilver Messenger Service

Guns and violence

• "Bad Habit" The Offspring
• "Both Sides of the Tweed" Capercaillie
• "Don't Forget the Guns" Cheryl Wheeler
• "If It Were Up to Me" Cheryl Wheeler
• "Lou Marsh" Phil Ochs
• "Luka" Suzanne Vega
• "Melt the Guns" XTC
• "New Day" Wyclef Jean
• "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" Phil Ochs
• "Police and Thieves" Junior Murvin
• "Saturday Night Special" Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Sunday Bloody Sunday" U2
• "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
• "Tool and Die" Consolidated
• "What's the Matter Here?" 10,000 Maniacs
• "Where is the Love?" The Black Eyed Peas
• "Zombie" The Cranberries

Homosexuals

• "Fahrenheit" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Fuck Aneta Briant " (sic) David Allen Coe

  (Presumably, the spelling of Anita Bryant's name was altered to avoid slander charges.)

• "Gay Rude Boys Unite" Leftover Crack
• "Glad To Be Gay" Tom Robinson
• "Homophobes Are Just Mad 'Cuz They Can't Get Laid" Propagandhi
• "Homophobia" Chumbawamba
• "I Heart Fags" MC Frontalot
• "The Killing Of Georgie [Parts I & II]" Rod Stewart
• "Luister Anita" Zangeres Zonder Naam
• "Murder in Hollywood" DOA
• "No Clause 28" Boy George
• "Smalltown Boy" Bronski Beat
• "When Two Men Kiss" Oi Polloi

Land Rights

• "Beds are Burning" Midnight Oil
• "The Diggers Song"
• "Paradise" John Prine
• "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
• "Where The Hell Are We Going To Live?" The Levellers (band)
• "World Turned Upside Down" Leon Rosselson
• "No More Roads" Oi Polloi

Materialism

• "Angels" Crass
• "Bullet in your Head" Rage Against the Machine
• "Consumo Gusto" Ska-P
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "I'm a Celt" Emcee Lynx
• "Little Boxes" Malvina Reynolds
• "McDolar" Ska-P
• "Money" Pink Floyd
• "Most Exclusive Residence For Sale" The Kinks
• "Mr. Clean" The Jam
• "My Pink Half of the Drainpipe" Bonzo Dog Band
• "Pleasant Valley Sunday" The Monkees
• "Poptones" Public Image Limited
• "Revistas del Corazón" Ska-P
• "Rockin' in the Free World" Neil Young
• "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
• "Time" Pink Floyd
• "Well Respected Man" The Kinks
• "We're All Bourgeois Now" McCarthy
• "What Do You Want From Life" The Tubes
• "Where Do the Children Play" Cat Stevens

Music critics and the music industry

• "Anything Right" P.O.D.
• "Blue Mixes" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Child's Play" Lucky Boys Confusion
• "Cockamamie Business" George Harrison
• "Dump Pop Song" Lucky Boys Confusion
• "Have a Cigar" Pink Floyd
• "Hip Hop" Dead Prez
• "Hurry Up Garry (The Parson's Farted)" Crass
• "Jimmy Buffett Doesn't Live in Key West Anymore" David Allen Coe
• "Jules and Jim" Pete Townshend
• "The Last DJ" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• "Money for Nothing" Dire Straits
• "The Moneygoround" Ray Davies and The Kinks
• "Newsworth" Greenslade
• "The Nickel Song" Melanie
• "Panic" The Smiths
• "Pop Singer" John Mellencamp
• "Radio, Radio" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• "St. Augustine in Hell" Sting
• "Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" Rolling Stones
• "Welcome to the Machine" Pink Floyd
• "Y'all Want a Single" Korn

Nuclear weapons

• "99 Luftballons" Nena
• "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" Bob Dylan
• "Boom!" System of a Down
• "Breathing" Kate Bush
• "Cruise Missiles" Fischer-Z
• "Einstein A Go-Go" Landscape
• "Electric Funeral" Black Sabbath
• "Enola Gay" OMD
• "Hiroshima" Todd Rundgren/Utopia
• "Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Russian Roulette" Jim Page
• "I Come And Stand At Every Door" The Byrds
• "Killer of Giants" Ozzy Osbourne
• "Made a Bomb" Poison Girls
• "Nagasaki Nightmare" Crass
• "Power" The Temptations
• "Pride of Man" Quicksilver Messenger Service
• "Put Down That Weapon" Midnight Oil
• "Redemption Song" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Russians" Sting
• "Soviet Jewellery" BB Gabor
• "Stand or Fall" The Fixx
• "The Sun is Burning" Simon and Garfunkel
• "They've Got a Bomb" Crass
• "This Is War" Smile Empty Soul
• "Total Eclipse" Klaus Nomi
• "Two Suns in the Sunset" Pink Floyd
• "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" Bonnie Dobson, covered by Jeff Beck, Grateful Dead, Lulu
• "We Will All Go Together When We Go" Tom Lehrer
• "What Have They Done to the Rain?" Malvina Reynolds
• "Wooden Ships" Crosby Stills and Nash
• "Nuclear Waste" Oi Polloi
• "No Filthy Nuclear Power" Oi Polloi

Police or authority

• "40-80" Lucky Boys Confusion
• "911 is a Joke" Public Enemy
• "A Man in Uniform" Randy
• "The Beast" The Fugees
• "Cherry Beach Express" Pukka Orchestra
• "Cop Killer" Ice-T
• "Cop Shot" Dead Prez
• "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
• "Dead Cops" Millions of Dead Cops
• "Fuck Tha Police" NWA
• "Gang Control" Leftover Crack
• "Get Your Riot Gear" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Hate the Police" Mudhoney
• "I Fought the Law" Bobby Fuller Four
• "I Shot the Sheriff" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "I'm Going to Say it Now" Phil Ochs
• "Killing in the Name" Rage Against the Machine
• "LAPD" The Offspring
• "Liddle Towers" Angelic Upstarts
• "A Bullet in the Chamber" Emcee Lynx
• "Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
• "Pigs Will Pay" Propagandhi
• "Police On My Back" The Levellers (band)
• "Police Story" Anti-Flag
• "Police Story" Black Flag
• "Police Truck" The Dead Kennedys
• "Prison Song" System of a Down
• "Romero El Madero" Ska-P
• "Without Reason or Rhyme (The Killing of Harry Stanley)" Chumbawamba
• "You Can Kill the Protester, But You Can't Kill the Protest" Anti-Flag

Politicians or world leaders

• "American Idiot" Green Day
• "The Ballad of Ronald Reagan" The Austin Lounge Lizards
• "Battalions of Fear" Blind Guardian
• "Big Brother" Stevie Wonder
• "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" The Ramones
• "Bullshit Politicians" Propagandhi
• "California Über Alles" Dead Kennedys
• "Corporate Deathburger" MDC
• "Dickie's Such an Asshole" Frank Zappa
• "Fall Dog Bombs the Moon" David Bowie
• The Final Cut (album) Pink Floyd
• "Get your filthy hands off my desert" Pink Floyd
• "Gimme Some Truth" John Lennon
• "Here's to the State of Richard Nixon" Phil Ochs: new lyrics for his original "Here's to the State of Mississippi"
• "Idiot Son of an Asshole" NOFX
• "Irish Blood, English Heart" Morrissey
• "Jesus Thinks You're a Jerk" Frank Zappa
• "The Love of Richard Nixon" Manic Street Preachers
• "Maggie" by The Exploited
• "Nuclear Device" The Stranglers
• "Old Mother Reagan" The Violent Femmes
• "Pig Nixon" Red Star Singers
• "Reagan Youth" Reagan Youth
• "Shoot The Dog" George Michael
• "Simpático Holgazán" Ska-P
• "Son of a Bush" Public Enemy
• "Stand Down Margaret" The Beat
• "Turncoat" Anti-Flag
• "We've Got a Bigger Problem Now" Dead Kennedys (to the tune of California Über Alles, but about Ronald Reagan)

Poverty

• "Another Day In Paradise" Phil Collins
• "Bangla Desh" George Harrison
• "Bourgeois Blues" Leadbelly
• "Cloud Nine" The Temptations
• "Cold Dreams" Emcee Lynx
• "Dead End Street" The Kinks
• "Dirty Boulevard" Lou Reed
• "Do They Know It's Christmas?" Band Aid
• "Do They Owe Us a Living?" Crass
• "Electric Avenue" Eddie Grant
• "El Olvidado" Ska-P
• "Freddie's Dead" Curtis Mayfield
• "Harvest For The World " The Isley Brothers The Christians
• "Hobo's Lullaby" Goebel Reeves
• "I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore" Woody Guthrie
• "I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto" Tupac
• "Insecto Urbano" Ska-P
• "In the Ghetto" Elvis Presley
• "Kill the Poor" Dead Kennedys
• "Let's Lynch the Landlord" Dead Kennedys
• "Linoleum" NOFX
• "The Message" Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
• "Pastures of Plenty" Woody Guthrie
• "Poverty" Bobby Bland
• "The Procession of Popular Capitalism" McCarthy (band)
• "Rambling Boy" Tom Paxton
• "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "There But For Fortune" Phil Ochs
• "Things Going On" Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Tom Joad" Woody Guthrie
• "We Are the World" USA for Africa
• "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place" The Animals

Prohibition and the War on Drugs

• "Burn One Down" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
• "Copperhead Road" Steve Earle
• "Coming into Los Angelese" Arlo Guthrie
• "Henry" New Riders of the Purple Sage
• "Illegal Smile" John Prine
• "Legalize It" Peter Tosh
• "Police in Helicopter" John Holt
• "The Pusher" Steppenwolf
• "Smoke Two Joints" Sublime
• "What's A Simple Man To Do?" Steve Earle

Racism, apartheid and civil rights

• "7 o'Clock News/Silent Night" Simon and Garfunkel
• "A La Mierda" Ska-P
• "Ali El Magrebi" Ska-P
• "All My Trials" Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary et al.
• "Ballad of Ira Hayes" Johnny Cash
• "Ballad of William Worthy" Phil Ochs
• "Big Brother" Stevie Wonder
• "Biko" Peter Gabriel
• "Birmingham Sunday" Joan Baez
• "Black or White" Michael Jackson
• "Blackheart Man" Bunny Wailer
• "Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan
• "Brother Louie" Hot Chocolate
• "Buffalo Soldier" Bob Marley
• "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" Buffy Sainte-Marie
• "Can Blue Men sing the Whites?" Bonzo Dog Band
• "Cry Freedom" Dave Matthews Band
• "Dance Stance" Dexy's Midnight Runners
• "The Day We Killed" Five Iron Frenzy
• "Don't Call Me Nigger, Whitey" Sly & the Family Stone
• "Down Rodeo" Rage Against the Machine
• "Everyday People" Sly & the Family Stone
• "Fight the Power" Public Enemy
• "Free Nelson Mandela " The Specials
• "Get Up, Stand Up" Bob Marley
• "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" Eddy Grant
• "Hurricane" Bob Dylan
• "If I had a Hammer" Pete Seeger
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "In All Rwanda's Glory" Rx Bandits
• "In The Flesh" Pink Floyd
• "Jimmy Sharman's Boxers" Midnight Oil
• "John Brown's Body"
• "Life" Sly & the Family Stone
• "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" Bob Dylan
• "Lucrecia" Ska-P
• "Message From a Black Man" The Temptations
• "Mestizaje" Ska-P
• "Mississippi Goddam" Nina Simone
• "Ohio" Neil Young
• "Om Nia Merican" Saul Williams
• "Oxford Town" Bob Dylan
• "Proud to Be Black" Run DMC
• "Redemption Song" Bob Marley
• "So Strong" Labi Siffre
• "Society's Child" Janis Ian
• "Southern Man" Neil Young
• "Strange Fruit" Billie Holliday
• "Sun City " Artists Against Apartheid
• "Take off Your Swastika" Phranc
• "They Schools" Dead Prez
• "The Times They Are A-Changing" Bob Dylan
• "Too Many Martyrs" Phil Ochs
• "Trouble Every Day" Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
• "Underdog" Sly & the Family Stone
• "Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World)" The Temptations
• "Violencia Machista" Ska-P
• "We Shall Overcome"
• "Where Is the Love" - Black Eyed Peas
• "Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom"

Religion

• "Baba" Alanis Morissette
• "Beautiful World" Emcee Lynx
• "Easter" Jefferson Airplane
• "Failure to Excommunicate" Relient K
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "Kasposos" Ska-P
• "La Mosca Cojonera" Ska-P
• "Marilyn Manson Ate My Girlfriend" Relient K
• "Moral Majority" Dead Kennedys
• Religion Public Image Ltd.
• "Religious Vomit" Dead Kennedys
• "Satellite" The Hooters
• "Sectas" Ska-P
• "Seguimos en Pie" Ska-P
• "Sexo y Religión" Ska-P
• "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" John Prine

Slavery

• "Mister Charlie" Robert Hunter/Grateful Dead
• "Redemption Song" Bob Marley

Television

• "I Am the Slime" Frank Zappa
• "MTV Get Off The Air" Dead Kennedys
• "Radio Ga Ga" Queen
• "Reality Show" Ska-P
• "Spanish Pipe Dream" John Prine
• "Telecide" The Tubes
• "Television, the Drug of the Nation" Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
• "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles
• "Watching TV" by Roger Waters

Terrorism

• "911 For Peace" Anti-Flag
• "Alert Status Red" Matthew Good
• "(America's the) Terrorist" Shamako Noble , Emcee Lynx, and Dub Cee
• "(Didn't Know I Was) Unamerican " Ian Rhett
• "The Future" Leonard Cohen
• "The Gunner's Dream" Pink Floyd
• "John Walker's Blues" Steve Earle
• "Love is Blindness" U2
• "Mass Destruction" Faithless
• "One" U2
• "Peace On Earth" U2
• "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" U2
• "Swastika Eyes" Primal Scream
• "Take a Minute" Antithesis
• "Zombie" The Cranberries

Unions and labor

• "1913 Massacre" Woody Guthrie
• "Allentown" Billy Joel
• "Angel of Freedom"
• "Banks of Marble"
• "Bear The Burden in The Heat of The Day"
• "Bells of Rhymney" Pete Seeger, covered by The Byrds, The Soft Boys
• "Between the Wars" Billy Bragg
• "Billy Hunt" The Jam
• "The Blackleg Miners"
• "The Blind Ploughman"
• "The Bonehead Working Man"
• "Career Opportunities" The Clash
• "Casey Jones - The Union Scab" Joe Hill
• "Centralia"
• "Coal Miner's Blues"
• "Coal Miner's Grave"
• "The Coal Owner And The Pitman's Wife"
• "Come All You Coal Miners"
• "Come Join the One Big Union, Do" Richard Brazier
• "Common Ground" Chumbawamba (re. 1984-1985 Miners Strike )
• "Do or Die" Dropkick Murphys
• "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back" John Brill
• "El Vals del Obrero Ska-P
• "Fitzwilliam" Chumbawamba (re. 1984-1985 Miners Strike)
• "From Little Things Big Things Grow" Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody
• "Got a Letter" Emcee Lynx
• "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum" Harry McClintock
• "Hard Times Come Again No More"
• "The Internationale"
• "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There"
• "Joe Hill" Joan Baez and others
• "John Henry"
• "Labor's Dixie" Charles M. Robinson
• "Little Man, You Had a Busy Day"
• "Ludlow Massacre" Woody Guthrie
• "Naval Xixón" Ska-P
• "One Big Industrial Union" George G. Allen
• "One by One" Chumbawamba (about the late 1990s Liverpool Dockers Strike )
• "The Parasites" John E. Nordquist
• "Part Of The Union" The Strawbs
• "Peg and Awl"
• "The Popular Wobbly"
• "The Preacher and the Slave" Joe Hill
• "Rebel Girl" Joe Hill
• "The Red Flag"
• "Roll the Union On"
• "Shearing In The Bar"
• "Shores of Botany Bay"
• "Sixteen Tons" Merle Travis
• "Smithers-Jones" The Jam
• "Solidarity Forever" Ralph Chaplin
• "Stand Up! Ye Workers" Ethel Comer
• "Struggle In The West"
• "There is Power in a Union" Joe Hill
• "This Land is Your Land" Woody Guthrie
• "Traveling Down the Castlereagh"
• "The Two Bums"
• "Union Burying Ground" Woody Guthrie
• "Union Maid" Woody Guthrie
• "The Union Scab" Joe Hill
• "The Union Train"
• "Wage Workers, Come Join the Union"
• "Which Side Are You On?" Billy Bragg
• "Workers of the World" James Connell
• "Workers of the World, Awaken" Joe Hill
• "Workingmen, Unite!"

War

• "1916" Motörhead
• "1917" Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt
• "2+2=?" Bob Seger
• "A New Kind of Army" Anti-Flag
• "Abraham, Martin & John" Dion
• "Albright Monument, Baghdad" Propagandhi
• "Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie
• "All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix
• "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Eric Bogle
• "Army Dreamers" Kate Bush
• "Army Man in Vietnam" Big Joe Williams
• "Baghdad" The Offspring
• "Ball Of Confusion (That's What the World is Today) " The Temptations
• "Ballad of Penny Evans" Steve Goodman
• "Beach Party at Vietnam" Dead Milkmen
• "Belsen Was A Gas" The Sex Pistols
• "Bleed For Me" Dead Kennedys
• "Blowin' in the Wind" Bob Dylan
• "Boom!" System of a Down
• "Born in the U.S.A." Bruce Springsteen
• "Bring the Boys Home" Freda Payne
• "Brothers in Arms" Dire Straits
• "Buffalo Soldier" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "Bullet the Blue Sky" U2 or P.O.D.
• "Chicago" Graham Nash
• "Children of the Revolution" Kirsty MacColl
• "Civil War" Guns n' Roses
• "Cops of the World" Phil Ochs
• "The Crow on the Cradle " Sydney Carter
• "Dachau Blues" Captain Beefheart
• "Desolation Row" Bob Dylan
• "Dialogue" Chicago
• "Die For Your Government" Anti-Flag
• "Don't Let The Bastards (Get You Down)" Kris Kristofferson
• "Door Into Summer" The Monkees
• "Dover Beach" The Fugs
• "Draft Dodger Rag" Phil Ochs
• The Electric Spanking of War Babies (album) Funkadelic
• "Eve of Destruction" Barry McGuire
• "Far Away Coast" Dropkick Murphys
• "Fight War, Not Wars" Crass
• "Fighting for Strangers" Steeleye Span
• The Final Cut (album) Pink Floyd
• "For What It's Worth" Buffalo Springfield
• "Fortunate Son" Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "The Four Insurgent Generals"
• "The Four Rivers"
• "Freedom" Richie Havens
• "Freeze Up" Operation Ivy
• "Give Peace a Chance" John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• "The Green Fields Of France" Eric Bogle
• "Gun in Your Hand" Rx Bandits
• "The Gunner's Dream" Pink Floyd
• Hair (musical)
• "Handsome Johnny" Richie Havens
• "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" John Lennon & Yoko Ono
• "Head, Chest, or Foot?" Propagandhi
• "Heroes" David Bowie
• "How Does It Feel?" Crass
• "The Human Being Lawnmower" (MC5)
• "I Ain't Marching Any More " Phil Ochs
• "I Don't Want To Be A Soldier" John Lennon
• "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" Morton Harvey
• "The 'I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die' Rag" Country Joe and the Fish (song also known as "123 What Are We Fighting For?", after a line in the song)
• "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" Bruce Cockburn
• "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next" Manic Street Preachers
• "Imagine" John Lennon
• "In a World Gone Mad" The Beastie Boys
• "Intifada" Ska-P
• "Is There Anybody Here?" Phil Ochs
• "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" Irish traditional, many versions
• "Killing Song"
• "Kinky Sex Makes the World Go 'Round" Dead Kennedys
• "La Resistance" South Park
• "Last Train to Clarksville" The Monkees
• "Let The Sunshine In" - Hair (musical)
• "Lookin' Back" Bob Seger
• "Machine Gun" Jimi Hendrix
• "Major General Despair" Crass
• "Masters of War " Bob Dylan
• "Mr. Churchill Says" Ray Davies and The Kinks
• "Mother" James
• "Mothers, Daughters, Wives"
• "My Generation" The Who
• "My War" Black Flag
• "My Youngest Son Came Home Today" Eric Bogle
• "Ohio" Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - about the Kent State massacre
• "Oliver's Army" Elvis Costello
• "One More Parade" Phil Ochs
• "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)" Coven
• "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)" Anti-Flag
• "Paddy's Lamentation" Irish, from the American Civil War
• "Paramilitar" Ska-P
• "Peace" Los Lobos
• "Peace Call" Woody Guthrie
• "Peace Frog" The Doors
• "Peace Train" Cat Stevens
• "Peat Bog Soldiers"
• "People Gotta Be Free" The Young Rascals
• "Pills and Soap" The Imposter
• "Plattgefickt" Ellen ten Damme
• "The Post War Dream" Pink Floyd
• "The Price of Oil" Billy Bragg
• "Readjustment Blues" John Denver
• "Rejoice" Jefferson Airplane
• "Roll With It" Ani DiFranco
• "Rooster" Alice in Chains
• "Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" Kenny Rogers
• "Run Through the Jungle" Creedence Clearwater Revival
• "Running Gun Blues" David Bowie
• "Sam Stone" John Prine
• "Santo Domingo" Phil Ochs
• "Send in the Marines" Tom Lehrer
• "Shipbuilding" Elvis Costello
• "Signs" The Five Man Electrical Band
• "Sky Pilot" Eric Burdon
• "Southampton Dock" Pink Floyd
• "Stop the War Now" The Temptations
• "Succexy" Metric (band)
• "Symptoms" Alanis Morissette
• "Tape From California" Phil Ochs
• "The Times They Are A-Changin'" Bob Dylan
• "To Susan On The West Coast Waiting" (Donovan)
• "Today I Killed a Man" P.J. Proby
• "The Train For Auschwitz "
• "Turn! Turn! Turn!" The Byrds or Pete Seeger
• "The Unelected President" Crass
• "Universal Soldier" Buffy_Sainte-Marie or Donovan
• "The Unknown Soldier" The Doors
• "Us and Them" Pink Floyd
• "Vietnam" Jimmy Cliff, Country Joe and the Fish, Lars & the Bastards
• "Vietnam Love Song" as sung by Judy Collins
• "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Pete Seeger
• "War" Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "War (What Is It Good For) " Edwin Starr
• "War Pigs" Black Sabbath
• "War Pimp Renaissance" Lard
• "War Story" Choking Victim
• "Washington Bullets" The Clash
• "We Gotta Have Peace" Curtis Mayfield
• "We Shall Overcome" Traditional
• "What's Going On" Marvin Gaye
• "What's That I Hear" Phil Ochs
• "When Ya Get Drafted" Dead Kennedys
• "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Pete Seeger, covered by many; hit versions by Kingston Trio, Johnny Rivers
• "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" Phil Ochs
• "With God on Our Side" Bob Dylan
• "Yes Sir, I Will" Crass
• "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" John Prine
• "Zor and Zam" The Monkees

Youth Rights

• "Another Brick in the Wall" Pink Floyd
• "Bored Teenagers" The Adverts
• "Dyers Eve" Metallica
• "Fight for Your Right (to Party)" Beastie Boys
• "Hell is for Children" Pat Benatar
• "If The Kids Are United" Sham 69
• "Minor Disturbance Too Young To Rock" The Teen Idles
• "My Generation" The Who
• "Nowhere Kids" Smile Empty Soul
• "Prisoner of Society" The Living End
• "The Young Folks" by Diana Ross & the Supremes; covered by The Jackson 5

Protest songs concerning protest songs

• "The Folk Song Army" Tom Lehrer
• "I'm Against It" Ramones

Other protest songs

• "Ænima" Tool
• "A Month of Sundays" Don Henley
• "Awakening Americans" Alanis Morissette
• "Change the World" P.O.D.
• "The Cutty Wren"
• "Excuse Me Mister" Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals
• "Female Mudwrestling" Phranc
• "The Fields of Athenry" Pete St. John . Also sung by the supporters of Celtic Football Club
• "Hungry Freaks, Daddy" Frank Zappa
• "Industrial Disease" Dire Straits
• "One in a Million " Guns N' Roses
• "Rain on the Scarecrow" John Cougar Mellencamp
• "Retrospect for Life" Common featuring Lauryn Hill
• "Treaty" Yothu Yindi
• many songs by Rage Against the Machine

Some protest song artists

• Anti-Flag
• Aus-Rotten
• Joan Baez
• Billy Bragg
• Chumbawamba
• The Clash
• Crass
• Dead Kennedys and Jello Biafra
• Donovan
• Bob Dylan
• Emcee Lynx
• Steve Earle
• Woody Guthrie
• Joe Hill, see Industrial Workers of the World
• Burl Ives
• Víctor Jara
• Karel Kryl
• Tom Lehrer
• The Levellers (band)
• Bob Marley
• MDC
• Manic Street Preachers
• McCarthy (band)
• Midnight Oil
• NOFX
• NWA
• Phil Ochs
• Phranc
• Tom Paxton
• Pink Floyd
• Propagandhi
• Public Enemy
• Rage Against the Machine
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Pete Seeger
• Ska-P
• Skyclad
• Sly & the Family Stone
• S.T.U.N.
• System Of A Down
• The Temptations
• Peter Tosh
• U2
• Wilco
• Neil Young

External links

• Rockin' In The Free World - Analysis of the Lyrics of Neil Young's Song
• Songs About Nuclear War from the Eighties
• Greatest Eighties Protest Songs